Review Of The Ordinary by Joy Gaines-Friedler

A breakfast of Swiss cheese and toast Sunday morning God and politics on television. AIDS and Domestic Violence are not just part of my vocabulary ______________they are the next door neighbor who broke in ______________through the basement window - he didn't take what he knew was already broken. After my friends died Memory Lane got cut off for construction. I once left a bag of weed on the kitchen counter next to the toaster - my father-in-law came in while we were out walking - we knew, because he left two honeydew melons from the market right next to it. Twenty years after our divorce I realize, I've given up what I need as many times as I've needed what I don't have. Here is the body - remember it. Here is the dent in the fender from the drunk night. Here is the door - a bit of WD-40 could fix that.

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